The webinars on HeinOnline Searching have been rescheduled for this week on Thursday, March 3, at 10am & 2pm.
It’s not too late; you can still register for one of these sessions:
For more information about the webinar, click here.
We are in the thick of the spring semester, and you have papers and projects underway. You may find that you could benefit from an hour or two of a workshop to gain some research skills or database finesse, for sources not strictly legal. All across campus, workshops are offered by various libraries at Cornell. Topics range from managing data sets to business research, from statistical databases to PowerPoint.
Click here to register and to see details on workshops offered:
You can also request a consultation with a research attorney for specialized legal research help by filling out this online form.
HeinOnline has earned its place as a comprehensive legal research tool. You probably use it for finding pdfs of journal articles when you have the citation. Over the last few years, it has developed its searching capabilities to be a first choice for searching journal articles. Hein is offering a 45-minute webinar on Thursday, February 24 at 10:00 am and at 2:00 pm on search techniques for HeinOnline. Sign up using the links below, and you can learn – right at your desktop — more strategies for improving your searches. To register for the 10:00 am session, click here. For the 2:00 pm session, click here.
We can use your input: Cornell Law Library is a Federal Depository Library, officially designated to have U.S. federal documents and information for you, the university, and the community. Primarily, we receive the law-related materials, such as U.S. Reports, the official U.S. Code, the Code of Federal Regulations, etc. We are obligated to organize and help you use the materials, in print and on the web, which come to us at no charge.
The Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) is conducting a web survey this month to learn what you think of the value of the program. The survey is at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HSLCRRB and is available until February 28, 2011. At the conclusion of the survey we will receive a report with aggregated responses and comments from our Law Library users, which will be used to help us determine the value of the FDLP here and to facilitate the development of outcomes-based performance measures.
If we are doing our jobs well, the federal documents will be a seamless part of the Cornell Law Library collection and services. Our aim is to integrate the federal documents with all the other materials in the library. You are encouraged to complete the web survey and let us know how we are doing!
The Legal History and Rare Books Section (LH&RB) of the American Association of Law Libraries, in cooperation with Cengage Learning, announces the third annual Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition. Students currently enrolled in accredited graduate programs in law, library science, history, or related fields are eligible to enter the competition. Essays may be on any topic related to legal history, rare law books, or legal archives. The entry form and instructions are available at the LH&RB website: http://www.aallnet.org/sis/lhrb/. Entries must be submitted by March 15, 2011. The winner will be announced by April 15.
The winner will receive a $500.00 prize from Cengage Learning and up to $1,000 for expenses associated with attendance at the AALL Annual Meeting in Philadelphia in July 2011. The runner-up will have the opportunity to publish the second-place essay in LH&RB’s online scholarly journal Unbound: An Annual Review of Legal History and Rare Books. Please direct questions to Robert Mead at libram@nmcourts.gov or Sarah Yates at yates006@tc.umn.edu.
Jim Bishop, 2L, has won an iPad from BNA! He registered to receive BNA updates, along with thousands of other law students across the country. And Jim was the winner!
If you want to receive BNA updates from US Law Week or on topics from banking to tax, labor law to mergers and acquisitions – go to http://library2.lawschool.cornell.edu/bna/subj/ and sign up for your choice of e-mail summaries.
During the first three days of July 1863, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, was the site of one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. President Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Gettysburg Civil War Cemetery on this day, November 19, 1863. Famously, Lincoln drafted his speech on the back of an envelope on the train ride to Pennsylvania. He later wrote out five copies of the text, one of which is in the Cornell University Library archives.
Cornell’s copy of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address is one of five known copies in Lincoln’s hand, and the only copy owned by a private institution. The other four copies are owned by public institutions: two at the Library of Congress, one at the Illinois State Historical Library, and one in the Lincoln Room at the White House.
May your career in law be dedicated to the proposition “that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Cornell has joined the Roubini Global Economics University Program to provide faculty and students with access to what The Economist magazine dubbed “the world’s most important economic website.” This provides you with RGE’s rich and timely research and analysis and unique understanding of the modern global economy. RGE provides insight into macroeconomic developments along with citations and readings which act as pathways for scholars, policymakers and future business leaders who need to pursue their ideas to the next level. Features include:
At the Roubini website you will be invited to register for a personal account. From off campus, access Roubini using the library catalog link – http://resolver.library.cornell.edu/misc/7060771. Hat tip to Donald Schnedeker, Librarian at Cornell School of Hotel Administration, for this information.
A research attorney is available at the reference desk every weekend the library is open on Saturdays from 1:00 to 5:00 pm. No reference help is available on Sundays. If you are doing research for a paper this semester, you may find a research attorney’s guidance very helpful in finding resources that are difficult or seemingly impossible to locate. We don’t want you to be disappointed if you show up on Sunday looking for help. Research attorneys are also available to assist you at the reference desk from 9am-5pm Mondays through Fridays. You may contact any of the research attorneys via e-mail with a question or to make an appointment. Make A Plan – Work Your Plan – Get It Done!
Having top notch skills is invaluable in today’s job market, so the law librarians are offering three courses in the spring semester to help you hone those skills:
Business Law Research and Online Legal Research: Free Sources meet for just 6 ½ weeks at the beginning of the semester. International and Foreign Legal Research meets all semester. You can read full descriptions and contact the course instructor for more information to help you make your choice. See why so many law students say their advanced legal research course was the most practical course they had in law school!
